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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

12-15

Domains of Use

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2014

Location and Context

Countries

Peru

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Location description

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Government support

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Institutional support

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Standard orthography

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Other languages used

Spanish

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

25

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

-3.6449,-74.1577

Location description

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Critically Endangered

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Year of info

Location and Context

Countries

Peru

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Location description

Spoken between the Pintoyacu, Chambira, and Nanay rivers in Maynas Province, Loreto Region, Peru.

Government support

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Script (Writing system)

Latin

Other writing systems

Spoken between the Pintoyacu, Chambira, and Nanay rivers in Maynas Province, Loreto Region, Peru.

More on writing systems

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Other languages used

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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

35

Domains of Use

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Second-language speakers and learners

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Child speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

230

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

1 monolingual

Year of info

2013

Location and Context

Countries

Peru

Coordinates

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Location description

Loreto Region, Pintoyacu, Nanay, and Chambira rivers; San Antonia and Atalaya.

Government support

No data

Institutional support

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Speakers' attitudes

Negative

Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

Latin

Other writing systems

Loreto Region, Pintoyacu, Nanay, and Chambira rivers; San Antonia and Atalaya.

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Spanish

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

25

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Year of info

2003

Location and Context

Countries

Peru

Coordinates

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Location description

Peruvian Amazon

Government support

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Peruvian Amazon

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

25

Domains of Use

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Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

25 passive (all over 30 years of age)

Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

25 (all fluent speakers)

Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

Iquito is seriously endangered with 25 fluent speakers, all over 60 years of age, and another 25 passive speakers, all over 30 years of age.

Year of info

2012

Location and Context

Countries

Peru

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Government support

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Other languages used

Spanish

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

22-26

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

230

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Peru

Coordinates

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Location description

Department of Loreto, Province of Maynas, on the Nanay River, to the northwest of Iquitos, in San Antonio de Pintoyacu, Atalaya, and Saboya.

Government support

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Standard orthography

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Other writing systems

Department of Loreto, Province of Maynas, on the Nanay River, to the northwest of Iquitos, in San Antonio de Pintoyacu, Atalaya, and Saboya.

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Native Speakers Worldwide

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

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Coordinates

-3.25,-74.0

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Other languages used

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

35

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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  1. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
    2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
  2. "Iquito Language Documentation Project" HRELP Abstract
    England, Nora. 2003. ""Iquito Language Documentation Project" HRELP Abstract." Online: http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=20.
    http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=20
  3. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
    http://www.ethnologue.com/
  4. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
    Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
  5. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
  6. South America
    Crevels, Mily. 2007. "South America." In Atlas of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 103-196. London & New York: Routledge.
  7. Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking.
    Crevels, Mily. 2012. "Language Endangerment in South America: The Clock Is Ticking." In The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide, 167-234. Mouton de Gruyter.
  8. The World Atlas of Language Structures
    2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.
  9. Apuntes sobre las lenguas Záparos - familia que se extingue
    Wise, Mary Ruth. 2005. "Apuntes Sobre Las Lenguas Záparos - Familia Que Se Extingue." In Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Etnolingüísticos, 11: 51-69.
  10. Topics in Iquito Syntax
    Brown, Mark C. Topics in Iquito Syntax. Master thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 2004.
  11. Time in the Iquito Language
    Lai, I-Wen. Time in the Iquito Language. PhD thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 2009.
  12. Iquito syntax
    Eastman, Robert and Elizabeth Eastman. 1963. "Iquito Syntax." In Studies in Peruvian Indian Languages 1, edited by Viola G. Waterhouse. 9: 145-192. Summer Institute of Linguistics of the University of Oklahoma.